# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in June 2026

## Danny Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance

As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.

## Soheila Yalpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, GreenTech, Cyber Security

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

## Myke Naef
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports

Myke Naef

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Adrian Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Aly Madhavji
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

## Marc P. Bernegger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Events, FinTech, Finance

Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.

## Ariel Luedi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## Éric Thuillier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Books, Retail

Mr. Eric Thuillier is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Deep Wealth, a Geneva-based investment advisory firm providing private capital solutions and investment consulting services to institutional investors including foundations and single family offices. Eric is also a business angel and active in the Swiss VC and growth ecosystem. Priorto Deep Wealth, Eric has co-founded Investivity, an award winning Geneva-based wealth manager and private office. He led before the multi-asset quantitative trading department in Geneva of Koch Industries, one of the largest private US companies and has held quant positions as VP, at a hedge fund trading equity futures, in the rates exotics dealing room of HSBC and in the FX models validation group at ABN Amro. Eric is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), a level 2 CFA (level 3 pending), graduated as a French computer science engineer and further holds a MSc in corporate finance from Dauphine University (France) and another MSc in quantitative finance from ENSAE / Dauphine.

## Olivier Crespin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Olivier Crespin - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

## Carole Ackermann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Carole Ackermann

## Paul Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Software, Information Technology

Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.

## Hayden Adams
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.

## Sam Lim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting

Sam Lim

## Tim Beiko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Web3

Tim Beiko is the Ethereum at Ethereum. He attended Concordia University.

## Peter Kurer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Compliance

Peter Kurer - Advisor @ Apiax

## Rahul Sethuram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Ethereum

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

## Alex Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, CAD, CRM

Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.

## Chris Waclawek
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Trading Platform

Chris Waclawek is an Executive at Worldcoin. He attended the University of Warsaw.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Francesco Illy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Financial Services

Francesco Illy

## Philippe Bubb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Philippe Bubb is the Founder at session.vc. Philippe Bubb attended at University of St.Gallen - University of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.

## Jakob Kaya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Wealth Management

Jakob Kaya is Co-CEO of mindnow AG. He attended Hochschule der Künste Bern.

## Dennis Liu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Communities

Dennis Liu

## Teodoro D'Ambrosio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace

Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.

## Alan Howard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## George Lambeth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Juan, NA - Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Internet

George Lambeth Divergence Ventures

## Lefteris Karapetsas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Lefteris Karapetsas

## Phil Rubin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

## Hans C. Werner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employee Benefits

Hans C. Werner is the Leiter Group Human Resources at Swisscom.
Born in 1960, he is the member of the Swisscom Group Executive Board, since September 2011.


## Beat Fellmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employee Benefits

Beat Fellmann

## Adriant Harrison
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency

Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale

## Martin Strobel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, SaaS, FinTech

Martin Strobel - Non Executive Director @ msg life

## Gian Reto à Porta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Gian Porta currently works as the Board Member for Relio. He previously worked at Contovista as the Co-Founder and CEO. Gian Porta attended University of Zurich in 2005.

## Ali Ilci
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software

Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor

## Mara Schmitman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS

## Lily Liu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Software, Apps

Lily Liu is the co-founder and CFO at Earn.com. He is a former partner at Multi family office and CFO at Chinaco Healthcare Corporation. Lily holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.

## Bhavik Bajaj
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

Bhavik Bajaj

## David Studer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Biel, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Social

David Studer

## Ajit Tripathi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Ethereum

Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Alexandre Gonthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

Alexandre Gonthier is the Founder & Executive Chairman, Trustly North America + Sr Advisor Trustly Group at Trustly. He attended EPFL.

## Alex Svanevik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Internet

Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.

## Philipp Schnyder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Marketplace

Philipp Schnyder

## Viktor Bunin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet

viktor bunin

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